Spike Lee filmography

Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, writer, and actor, noted for his films that deal with controversial social and political issues. Lee's films are typically referred to as "Spike Lee Joints" and the closing credits always end with the phrases "By Any Means Necessary", "Ya Dig" and "Sho Nuff".^[1]

Lee received a Master of Fine Arts from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, which culminated in his thesis film Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads, the first student film to be showcased in Lincoln Center's New Directors/New Films Festival.^[2] Lee's first feature-film She's Gotta Have It was released three years later in 1986. Lee directed, produced, wrote, and acted in his first three feature-films: She's Gotta Have It, School Daze, and Do the Right Thing. Lee has starred or acted in many of his own films, including the role of Mars Blackmon, which he reprised for a series of Nike commercials that also starred Michael Jordan.^[3]

In addition to his feature-film credits, Lee has directed a number of music videos by artists such as Prince, Michael Jackson, Anita Baker and Eminem. He has also directed music videos for songs featured in films he has directed, including "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy, which was featured heavily in the 1989 film Do the Right Thing.^[4]

Films

Year	Film	Credited as
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer
1983	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads	Yes	Yes	Yes
1986	She's Gotta Have It	Yes	Yes	Yes
1988	School Daze	Yes	Yes	Yes
1989	Do the Right Thing	Yes	Yes	Yes
1990	Mo' Better Blues	Yes	Yes	Yes
1991	Jungle Fever	Yes	Yes	Yes
1992	Malcolm X	Yes	Yes	Yes
1994	Crooklyn	Yes	Yes	Yes
1995	Clockers	Yes	Yes	Yes
1996	Girl 6	Yes		Yes
1996	Get on the Bus	Yes		Executive
1998	He Got Game	Yes	Yes	Yes
1999	Summer of Sam	Yes	Yes	Yes
2000	Bamboozled	Yes	Yes	Yes
2002	25th Hour	Yes		Yes
2004	She Hate Me	Yes	Yes	Yes
2006	Inside Man	Yes
2008	Miracle at St. Anna	Yes		Yes
2008	Passing Strange (Broadway show)	Yes		Yes
2012	Red Hook Summer	Yes	Yes	Yes
2013	Oldboy	Yes		Yes
2014	Da Sweet Blood of Jesus	Yes	Yes	Yes
2015	Chi-Raq	Yes	Yes	Yes
2017	Rodney King (stand-up special)	Yes		Yes
2018	Pass Over	Yes		Yes
2018	BlacKkKlansman	Yes	Yes	Yes
TBA	Da 5 Bloods	Yes	Yes	Yes
TBA	Prince of Cats^[5]	Yes		^{[to be determined]}

Producer only

Year	Film	Notes
1994	Drop Squad	Executive producer
1995	New Jersey Drive
1995	Tales from the Hood
1999	The Best Man
2000	Afrocentricity	Executive producer
2000	Love & Basketball
2001	3 A.M.
2003	Good Fences	Executive producer
2005	Dream Street
2009	Saint John of Las Vegas
2011	You're Nobody 'til Somebody Kills You
2011	Pariah	Executive producer
2014	Evolution of a Criminal
2014	Manos Sucias
2015	Cronies
2015	The Girl Is in Trouble
2019	Amazing Grace
2019	See You Yesterday

Short films

Year	Film	Credited as				Role	Notes
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer	Actor	Role	Notes
1979	Last Hustle in Brooklyn	Yes	Yes
1980	The Answer	Yes	Yes
1981	Sarah	Yes	Yes
1995	Lumière and Company	Yes			Yes	Himself	Segment
2001	Come Rain or Come Shine	Yes
2002	"We Wuz Robbed"	Yes		Yes			Segment of Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet
2005	"Jesus Children of America"	Yes		Yes			Segment of All the Invisible Children
2017	Brave: Visions for Moncler	Yes

Documentary

Year	Film	Credited as
Year	Film	Director	Producer
1997	4 Little Girls	Yes	Yes
2000	The Original Kings of Comedy	Yes	Yes
2012	Bad 25	Yes	Yes
2016	Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall	Yes	Yes
2016	2 Fists Up^[6]	Yes

Acting roles

Year	Film	Role
1986	She's Gotta Have It	Mars Blackmon
1988	School Daze	Half-Pint
1989	Do the Right Thing	Mookie
1990	Mo' Better Blues	Giant
1990	Lonely in America	Himself
1991	Jungle Fever	Cyrus
1992	Malcolm X	Shorty
1994	Crooklyn	Snuffy
1994	Drop Squad	Himself
1995	Clockers	Chucky
1996	Girl 6	Jimmy
1999	Summer of Sam	John Jeffries
2000	Lisa Picard Is Famous	Himself
2001	3 A.M.	Filmmaker
2012	Red Hook Summer	Mookie

Television

Year	Title	Credited as			Notes
Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
2004	Sucker Free City	Yes		Yes	Television film
2005	Miracle's Boys	Yes			Episodes: "New Charlie" and "Bond of Brothers"
2006	Shark	Yes			Pilot
2007	M.O.N.Y.	Yes			Unaired pilot
2011	Da Brick	Yes		Yes	Unaired pilot
2014	Katt Williams: Priceless: Afterlife	Yes		Executive	Stand-up special
2014	Jerrod Carmichael: Love at the Store	Yes			Stand-up special
2017–2019	She's Gotta Have It	Yes	Yes	Executive	Creator

Documentary

Year	Title	Credited as
Year	Title	Director	Producer
1990	Spike Lee & Company: Do It a Cappella	Yes
1999	Pavarotti and Friends for the Guatemala and Kosovo	Yes
2002	Jim Brown: All-American	Yes	Yes
2006	When The Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts	Yes	Yes
2009	Kobe Doin' Work	Yes	Yes
2010	If God Is Willing and da Creek Don't Rise	Yes	Yes
2018	Pass Over	Yes

Stage show

Year	Title	Credited as
Year	Title	Director	Producer
1998	Freak	Yes
2001	A Huey P. Newton Story	Yes
2013	Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth	Yes	Yes

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1986	Saturday Night Live	Mars Blackmon
1992	Ghostwriter	Special Agent Pete	Episode: "Into the Comics: Part 1"
2017–2019	She's Gotta Have It	Joe the bartender

Music videos

Year	Artist	Song	Album
1983	Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel	"White Lines (Don't Don't Do It)"
1987	Anita Baker	"No One in the World"	Rapture
1988	E.U.	"Da Butt"	School Daze OST
1989	Public Enemy	"Fight the Power"	Do the Right Thing OST and Fear of a Black Planet
1991	Fishbone	"Sunless Saturday"	The Reality of My Surroundings
1991	State of Art	"Understanding"	Community
1992	State of Art	"Laughing at the Years"	Community
	Prince and the New Power Generation	"Money Don't Matter 2 Night"	Diamonds and Pearls
	Arrested Development	"Revolution"^[7]	Malcolm X OST
1993	Naughty by Nature	"Hip Hop Hooray"	19 Naughty III
	Eros Ramazzotti	"Cose della vita"	Tutte storie
	Bruce Hornsby	"Talk Of The Town"	Harbor Lights
1994	Buckshot LeFonque	"Breakfast at Denny's"	Buckshot LeFonque
1996	Michael Jackson	"They Don't Care About Us" (Prison Version)	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
1996	Michael Jackson	"They Don't Care About Us" (Brazil/Olodum Version)	HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I
2000	Mau Maus	"Blak Iz Blak"	Bamboozled
2009	Michael Jackson	"This Is It"	This Is It
2014	Eminem	"Headlights"	The Marshall Mathers LP 2
2019	The Killers	"Land of the Free"	Land Of The Free - Single

Video game

Year	Film	Credited as
Year	Film	Director	Writer	Producer
2015	NBA 2K16	Yes	Yes	Executive

Collaborations

Actors

Actor	Joe's Bed-Stuy Barbershop: We Cut Heads (1983)	She's Gotta Have It (1986)	School Daze (1988)	Do the Right Thing (1989)	Mo' Better Blues (1990)	Jungle Fever (1991)	Malcolm X (1992)	Crooklyn (1994)	Clockers (1995)	Girl 6 (1996)	Get on the Bus (1996)	He Got Game (1998)	Summer of Sam (1999)	Bamboozled (2000)	25th Hour (2002)	She Hate Me (2004)	Inside Man (2006)	Miracle at St. Anna (2008)	Red Hook Summer (2012)	Old Boy (2013)	Da Sweet Blood of Jesus (2014)	Chi-Raq (2015)	BlacKkKlansman (2018)
Rick Aiello				Y		Y			Y
Lemon Andersen																Y	Y	Y
Mamie Louis Anderson					Y	Y
Ashlie Atkinson																	Y						Y
Michael Badalucco					Y	Y			Y				Y
Angela Bassett							Y															Y
Susan Batson										Y	Y		Y	Y
Richard Belzer										Y	Y
Graham Brown							Y		Y
Jim Brown												Y				Y
Robert John Burke																		Y					Y
Thomas Jefferson Byrd									Y	Y	Y	Y		Y					Y		Y
Victor Colicchio													Y				Y
Michael Cullen							Y		Y
Ossie Davis			Y	Y		Y	Y				Y					Y
Rosario Dawson												Y			Y
Ruby Dee			Y	Y		Y
Michael Devine																Y	Y
Kim Director												Y	Y	Y		Y	Y
Doug E. Doug						Y	Y
Erik Dellums		Y	Y	Y
Chiwetel Ejiofor																Y	Y
Giancarlo Esposito			Y	Y	Y		Y
Jennifer Esposito												Y	Y
Tyra Ferrell			Y			Y
Frances Foster							Y	Y	Y
Peter Frechette																	Y	Y
Leland Gantt							Y											Y
Hill Harper											Y	Y
Robin Harris				Y	Y
Zelda Harris								Y				Y
Tommy Redmond Hicks	Y	Y
Michael Imperioli						Y	Y		Y	Y			Y							Y
Samantha Ivers																	Y		Y
Samuel L. Jackson			Y	Y	Y	Y														Y		Y
Rodney "Bear" Jackson														Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Tracy Camilla Johns		Y			Y														Y
Lonette McKee						Y	Y					Y
Brendan Kelly							Y		Y
Tim Kelleher							Y		Y
David Patrick Kelly							Y	Y														Y
Cinque Lee			Y																		Y
Joie Lee		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y		Y	Y					Y					Y
John Leguizamo													Y					Y
Harry Lennix									Y		Y
Delroy Lindo							Y	Y	Y
Branford Marsalis				Y	Y
Debi Mazar						Y	Y			Y
J. C. MacKenzie									Y			Y
Coati Mundi					Y					Y				Y
Charlie Murphy					Y	Y
Arthur Nascarella									Y	Y		Y	Y										Y
Elvis Nolasco									Y											Y	Y
Bill Nunn			Y	Y	Y							Y
Al Palagonia										Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Paula Jai Parker											Y					Y
Erik Payne		Y	Y				Y
Dina Pearlman										Y				Y
Wendell Pierce							Y				Y
Christopher Plummer							Y										Y
Theresa Randle						Y	Y
James Ransone																	Y		Y	Y
Monty Ross	Y	Y			Y		Y
Miguel Sandoval				Y		Y
John Savage				Y									Y
Joe Seneca			Y		Y		Y
Al Sharpton							Y							Y
Wesley Snipes					Y	Y																Y
Roger Guenveur Smith			Y	Y			Y				Y	Y	Y
Mike Starr									Y				Y
D. B. Sweeney																		Y				Y
Brian Tarantina													Y										Y
Joseph Lyle Taylor										Y		Y	Y	Y
Leonard L. Thomas			Y	Y	Y		Y		Y	Y
John Turturro				Y	Y	Y			Y	Y		Y	Y			Y		Y
Nicholas Turturro				Y	Y	Y	Y																Y
Nelson Vasquez				Y						Y		Y
Frank Vincent			Y		Y
John Wallace												Y		Y
Denzel Washington					Y		Y					Y					Y
Isaiah Washington								Y	Y		Y
Veronica Webb						Y	Y
Steve White				Y	Y		Y		Y		Y
Isiah Whitlock Jr.															Y	Y			Y			Y	Y
Christopher Wynkoop								Y	Y			Y	Y	Y		Y

References

General

"Spike Lee > Filmography". Allmovie. Retrieved 2008-01-15.
"Spike Lee – Rotten Tomatoes Celebrity Profile". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 2009-02-09.

Specific

^ "Spike Lee Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
^ "Spike Lee – Profile, Latest News and Related Articles". E!. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
^ Curtis, Bryan (2008-06-01). "Bro Knows Football". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-07.
^ Black, Johnny (August 2002). "The Greatest Songs Ever! Fight the Power". Blender. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
^ Desta, Yohana (November 14, 2019). "Spike Lee's Next Joint Is a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet Prince of Cats, Spike Lee's Next Joint Is a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 10, 2019.
^ Nemcik, Marc (May 31, 2016). "Watch: Spike Lee's ESPN Documentary 2 Fists Up, On Protests at University of Missouri". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 25, 2017.
^ "Revolution – Arrested Development - Music Video". MTV. Retrieved 2008-02-05.

External links

Spike Lee at IMDb

[1] "Spike Lee Biography – Yahoo! Movies". Yahoo! Movies. Retrieved 2009-02-10.

[2] "Spike Lee – Profile, Latest News and Related Articles". E!. Retrieved 2009-02-09.

[3] Curtis, Bryan (2008-06-01). "Bro Knows Football". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-02-07.

[4] Black, Johnny (August 2002). "The Greatest Songs Ever! Fight the Power". Blender. Retrieved 2009-02-09.

[5] Desta, Yohana (November 14, 2019). "Spike Lee's Next Joint Is a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet Prince of Cats, Spike Lee's Next Joint Is a Hip-Hop Romeo and Juliet". Vanity Fair. Retrieved December 10, 2019.

[6] Nemcik, Marc (May 31, 2016). "Watch: Spike Lee's ESPN Documentary 2 Fists Up, On Protests at University of Missouri". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 25, 2017.

[7] "Revolution – Arrested Development - Music Video". MTV. Retrieved 2008-02-05.

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